And we can get back to that raw stateOf feeling, so long deemed...Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musingsAbout religion, about migrations. What is restoredBecomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered;Is a new, separate life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates--but pagesMight be filled up, as vainly as before,...With the sad usage of all sorts of sages,Who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore!The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men an...d women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybody... in matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human empl...oyment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

All these young souls were passengers in the Durbeyfield ship--entirely dependent on the judgment of the two Durbeyfield adults fo...r their pleasures, their necessities, their health, even their existence. If the heads of the Durbeyfield household chose to sail into difficulty, disaster, starvation, disease, degradation, death, thither were these half-dozen little captives under their hatches compelled to sail with them--six helpless creatures, who had never been asked if they wished for life on any terms, much less if they wished for it on such hard conditions as were involved in being of the shiftless house of Durbeyfield. Some people would like to know whence the poet whose philosophy is in these days deemed as profound and trustworthy as his song is breezy and pure, gets his authority for speaking of "Nature's holy plan."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political inter...ests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom ...books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »